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RSC BMCS Symposium: Synthesis in the Agri-Sciences

Tuesday 6th November 2018 from 9:00 to 18:00

 

170 Queen’s Gate, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 5HF, UK 

 

£50 prize for best poster presentation

Only a few places left, preference will be given to those that submit a poster abstract

 

SYNOPSIS

 

The objective of the meeting is to promote scientific interactions between academic and industrial researchers and to showcase the key role that synthesis plays in the discovery and development of new agrochemicals. New crop protection products are important to help overcome the huge challenges facing modern agriculture – To increase food production in a cost effective and sustainable manner, against a background of increasing population and decreasing farmland and water supplies, and loss of existing solutions due to resistance or regulatory pressures.

 

VENUE

 

170 Queen’s Gate

Imperial College London

South Kensington Campus

London SW7 5HF

 

REGISTRATION

 

The event is FREE but spaces are limited and registration is required. Please register online (on a first come, first served basis) by the 26^th October 2018 at 12.00 BST by going to: 

 

https://goo.gl/forms/rhPOjcWJAbbjEW3B3

 

Free lunch and refreshments will be provided on the day.

 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

 

James Morris (Syngenta): Herbicidally Active 1,8-Naphthyridines: From One Mode of Action to Another

Sergii Pazenok (Bayer AG): Synthesis of Heterocyclic Compounds Bearing Emergent Fluorinated Substituents

Alan Spivey (Imperial College London): Synthesis Directed at the Control of Crop Pests - Chemical Proteomics, Natural Product Investigations & Asymmetric Catalysis

Patrick Steel (Durham University): Selective Synthesis of Heterocycles and Herbicide Synergists

Chris Urch (Redag Crop Protection Ltd.): The Discovery of New Benzimidazole Oomycete Fungicides

Michael Loso (Corteva Agriscience): The Impact of Synthetic Innovation on Optimization of Lead Chemistries in Agrochemical Research

Thomas Stevenson (FMC Agricultural Solutions, USA): Aryl Triazoles: Selective and Potent Bleaching Herbicides

Louise Eagling (University of Bristol): Developing a ‘Reverse-Biomimetic’ Synthesis of Arogenate and its Analogues Using a Dearomatising Intramolecular Acylation Strategy

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

 

Posters are invited for display throughout the meeting and authors are encouraged to present their work in a two-minute flash presentation during the meeting. Please submit your abstract upon registration, by the 26^th October 2018 at 12.00 BST.  A prize of £50 will be awarded for the best poster presentation (prize sponsored by the RSC Agriculture Sector).

 

TRAVEL GRANTS

 

Information regarding RSC Travel Grants for PhD Students and Early Career Scientists can be found at: 

 

http://www.rsc.org/ScienceAndTechnology/Funding/division-travel-grants/index.asp

 

EXHIBITION

 

Exhibition stands are welcomed and the rates are: £250 Exhibition stand (inc. 1 full delegate; £50 per additional attendee). £350 Full meeting sponsorship.

 

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

 

Laura Barter (Imperial College London)

Steve Lindell – Chair (Bayer AG, Crop Science Division)

Steve Wailes (Syngenta)  

Andrew Williams (Lilly UK)

Rudiger Woscholski (Imperial College London)

 

SPONSORS

 

We are grateful to our sponsors: Syngenta and Bayer.

 

FLYER 

 

Click here to download the flyer.

 

 

Programme

 

Click here to download the programme.

 

  

GETTING THERE

Directions on how to get to the conference venue can be found here (building No 24 on the map, Queen’s Gate entrance side). 

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

 

For any queries or further information about the event, please contact agri-admin@imperial.ac.uk

 

 

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